Dallas: Shrink-Swell Clay and Explosive Growth Are Testing Sewer Rehabilitation
Dallas’s underground infrastructure is trying to keep pace with one of the fastest-growing metros in the country, and the ground underneath it isn’t cooperating. North Texas’s notorious shrink-swell clay moves with every wet and dry cycle, putting constant stress on pipe joints across the metroplex. For engineers and contractors managing sewer rehabilitation across Dallas and […]
In Dallas the most common pipe line is cast iron.
In Dallas the most common pipe line is cast iron. Cast iron pipes were introduced to the United States in the nineteenth century, imported from Europe. Cast iron pipes were to replace wooden pipe lines and now sewer pipes range from cast iron, PVC, and clay. All of which at some time or another will […]